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Thread Index [isp-caching] Compressing Caching server - Propel / Sliptstream
Hello. I know many of you guys are still Dial-up providers,
and you are the most knowledgeable (and handsome!)
group of guys I know, so I thought I'd ask my question
here. :-) I hope no one from the WISP-Equipment list
reads this, because I used pretty much the same line
to suck up to those guys a second ago! :-)
I'm looking for dial-up acceleration software, something
like Propel or Slipstream. We've used a trial of Miliki
iNET accelerator from Quikcat.com, and are very pleased
with the difference it makes. It basically takes graphics
that are in web pages, and re-compresses them in a lossy
way to reduce their size greatly. This makes them a but
poorer quality, but also makes them 1/4 the size and 4 times
faster in some cases. Of course it does not speed up MP3
download or anything else, but it does dramatically speed
up browsing. The issue is these are all server / client based
and the servers in these cases are theirs - and our clients
would have to pay monthly subscriptions to Propel or Miliki.
I'm looking for a server that I can download and run here,
something Open Source or something we can purchase
for a reasonable amount of money for a small dialup ISP.
I would have thought that there would be a Squid component
that would do this, or some other caching proxy server that
would compress the data before it handed it back out, but
nothing I can find seems to do it.
So, any help would be appreciated. From the results we've
seen with miliki, it's well worth doing this for both dialup and
for our wireless customers. Even the less aggressive speed
settings are very noticeable and would save lots of bandwidth,
yet have very little loss in visual quality. Any help or comments
would be appreciated.
- Todd Chamberlain
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